During the relay, which will be screened in more than 1500 cinemas across over 35 countries, Paterson will interview members of the cast and production team. A series of backstage films exploring the creation of the production will also be shown.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny will be screened live in cinemas across the world on 1 April 2015. Find your nearest cinema. The Season continues on 5 May with a live screening of The Royal Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée.

As well as being a star of the silver screen, Grant is also an accomplished theatre actor, appearing in the West End in The Importance of Being Earnest as well as performing various Shakespeare roles at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

Away from acting, Grant has also written a novel and has directing credits to his name. His musical passions have led him to champion history’s great composers to a general audience – discussing the world’s most iconic pieces in the Sky Arts series ‘Richard E Grant’s Essential Classics’.

Poet Andrea Chénier and former aristocrat Maddalena di Coigny fall in love, much to the envy of Carlo Gérard – a servant in Maddalena’s home. However, when Gérard becomes a Revolutionary official, his jealousy threatens not only their happiness, but their lives.

The relay featured a series of backstage films, including rehearsal footage and interviews with members of the cast and creative team.

If you missed the screening on the night, or just want to find out more about the production, here's another chance to see the films:

Creating Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

'When Chris said "I'm going to make a ballet out of this", I thought "You're insane, how could you make a ballet of this?!",' says designer Bob Crowley. 'It's a very complicated thing because it involves all sorts of illusions.'

'Sometimes creating a new ballet can be very difficult - a struggle even - but Alice really wasn't,' says Christopher Wheeldon of the ballet which had its premiere in 2011. 'We had a very good time putting it together'

'The Queen of Hearts is a combination of a lot of people - friends and people that I admire. It's an outrageous character that can go anywhere,' says Royal Ballet Principal Zenaida Yanowsky, who created the character in 2011.

'We decided that she'd be like a maniacal toy,' says Christopher Wheeldon.

Watch the cast and creative team discuss one of modern ballet's most memorable characters:

‘Sometimes creating a new ballet can be very difficult but Alice really wasn’t – we had a good time putting it together’, he says. ‘There was a great sense of collaboration throughout the Royal Opera House when building this show. It’s quite a feat of virtuosity – everybody does their job and all of those elements come together to create what you see today on the screen.’

Read an interview with Kiandra Howarth, including her thoughts on the opera and what it’s like to perform in a production being relayed live to tens of thousands in cinemas around the world.

The Story

Young Nemorino is passionately in love with the beautiful Adina, but she seems more interested in Sergeant Belcore. Can Doctor Dulcamara’s dubious ‘love potion’ help Nemorino to win Adina’s heart?

The Production

In an interview, the director Laurent Pelly discusses the music and characters of L’elisir d’amore and how he has drawn on his childhood memories of growing up in the French countryside to create the production:

‘I think of it as the contemporary countryside. Everyone says it’s set in the ‘50s because of the scooters, the Vespas,’ he says. ‘I was born in ’62; Chantal [Thomas, set designer] was born the year before, so it’s more about our childhood memories.’

Review

After the relay, we’ll be publishing a roundup of tweets about the cinema screening, so share your thoughts using the hashtag #ROHelisir.

The day will begin in Sydney at 3am BST and finish in San Francisco at 11pm BST. Each Company will start their day with Class and then open their rehearsal studios to the cameras to see what really goes on in the hours before curtain up.

The Royal Ballet's section runs 11am-3pm BST and will be hosted by TV and radio presenter George Lamb.

During the four hours from Covent Garden, viewers around the world will see Carlos Acosta coach Principal Vadim Muntagirov in the role of Basilio in Don Quixote. Carlos's production was first performed to acclaim last year and will be revived by The Royal Ballet in November.

Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett will rehearse his new work The Age of Anxiety with Principals Laura Morera and Steven McRae prior to its premiere on on Friday 7 November. The ballet is inspired by W.H. Auden’s poem about four disparate characters in a wartime New York bar trying to make sense of their shifting worlds.

Company First Artist and choreographer Ludovic Ondiviela will rehearse his first Royal Ballet commission Cassandra which will have its premiere in October as part of the Company’s Linbury Studio Programme.

As well as rehearsals, artistic insights will also be given through interviews. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor will be interviewed about creating Woolf Works, his first full-length work for the Company based on the writings and life of the seminal English author Virginia Woolf; and Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare will talk about what he and the Company are most excited about over the Season ahead.

The Bolshoi Ballet will rehearse Jean-Christophe Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew, and Yuri Grigorovich's Legend of Love.

The National Ballet of Canada will rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Manon with Anthony Dowell, the former Director of The Royal Ballet who had the role of Des Grieux created on him 40 years ago. The company will also rehearse John Neumeier's Nijinsky.